Howard Rosenthal
Professor of Politics
New York University
at time of fellowship
2005 to 2006
Sean Corcoran, Assistant Professor of Economics at California State University-Sacramento, Thomas Romer, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Howard Rosenthal, Professor of Politics at New York University, form a working group that will construct a comprehensive time-series database with demographic, political, and financial information on American school districts. While at the Foundation, they will use information from this database to begin writing a book about the political economy of financing U.S. schools, focusing on inequality in school spending.
Working Papers
- Does Gerrymandering Cause Polarization?
- Government Instability with Perfect Spatial Voting: France 1946-1958
- Bankruptcy 'Reform' in Congress: Creditors, Committees, Ideology, and Floor Voting in the Legislative Process
- Political Polarization and Income Inequality